Two Strings by Jake Shulman-Ment and Abigale Reisman

Renowned violinists Abigale Reisman and Jake Shulman-Ment present their highly anticipated collaborative album, Two Strings. A milestone in Ashkenazic violin style, the album showcases two of today’s most creative and virtuosic klezmer musicians.

Two Strings—Tsvey Strunes in Yiddish—references a unique violin tuning of Turkish origin commonly used by Jewish musicians in Eastern Europe. Abigale and Jake have recorded a playful string-based album inspired by Yiddish, Romanian, Hungarian, Turkish, and classical music traditions. This timely release centers Yiddish culture as a profound source of wisdom in the face of dark times, and celebrates a diasporic Jewishness independent of any one particular territory or land.

With striking authenticity as instrumentalists and vocalists, Abigale and Jake weave together a rich tapestry of original compositions, original settings of early 20th century radical leftist Yiddish poetry, and recently rediscovered pieces from forgotten manuscripts. Haunting and ecstatic, the sound blurs lines between old and new. Two Strings is equally at home under a Jewish wedding canopy, in a grand concert hall, or in a drunken tavern.